Hi! So sorry that yesterday I didn't upload new chapter as I was promised, but to be honest, I wasn't finished writing it because I put on a lot of thought and did a lot of research for it. I tried my best to look for all the information I could use with Taylor's and Heather's relationship, but not a lot of it is out there. So the things I found I used them and some are a bit altered. Here I am considering that they had dated since High school even though I don't know if it's true, the only thing I know was that they went to the same high school so I am supposing that they did. It's the longest chapter so far and it has a reason, also Naya doesn't appear at all this chapter, but don't worry Naya fans, it's also for a reason ;) Get ready for next chapter, it's my favorite so far! It will be uploaded tomorrow for sure! Enjoy!

Chapter 11

Two days passed since the fight Heather had with Naya, where both of them confessed that they were in love but Heather couldn't deal with it and left Naya alone. Heather had been feeling terrible these two days, she was incredibly depressed but had to fake everything because Taylor was there. She wanted so badly to be with Naya and tell her that she loved her more than anything but she couldn't leave Taylor. After all they had been through, dating since high school, countless memories; they had shared so many things that it was hard for Heather to imagine a life without him. She had thought many times that she would probably end up marrying him, he was a great guy, who loved her, responsible, a family man, someone who Heather trusted with her life. But Naya… made her heart stop.

Whenever she thought about her, her heart filled with joy as she couldn't picture anything else than those deep brown eyes and that perfect smile of hers. She was her best friend, the only one who could cheer her up when she was down, the only one who could make her smile at any moment. They had also been through so much but as friends, and now that there was more, it scared Heather. Things with Taylor were so much easier; if she decided to go with Naya it would change her life. She would have to confess that she liked girls too and that was hard, her family wasn't a big fan of this, they tolerated her character being with Santana because they knew she was working and that she loved her work, but this would sure be a conflict.

Heather had never been so stuck in her life, the more she thought about it and considered her options the more stuck she was. Her heart told her one thing but her mind told her another. But she couldn't leave Taylor, not like this.

Those two days had been torture for Heather, not because she didn't want to be with Taylor but because she couldn't even fake a smile. She just wanted to stay in bed and cry over the situation. And it killed her that she had to lie to Taylor and try to be the loving girlfriend she once was when she had cheated on him five days before. And today Taylor was leaving and Heather hadn't made a decision, she tried to push Naya's feelings away but she just couldn't get her out of her mind. The last image she had of her, a fragile and broken Naya standing in the hallway of the door she would close, burned in her mind and it killed her that she had been like that because of her.

She knew she had to make a decision by that day; she couldn't let Taylor leave as if nothing had happened and keep pretending. Either she broke up with him and went with Naya or she stayed with Taylor and tell Naya that it was over. But it seemed as if she would lose Taylor either way because even if she stayed with him, she would have to tell him that she cheated on him and that would probably drive him away. She couldn't keep lying to him, it wasn't right. But if this happened, would Naya take her in again, after she had left her alone that night. Naya had been so honest and open to her and she knew how much it hurt accepting her true feelings and she left her alone. So it didn't matter what she did, she would lose someone really important to her, now she only had to decide who would it hurt the most to lose.

"Umm baby? Are you ok?" asked Taylor worried that something was going on with her girlfriend. She had been distant the whole time he had been there.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be" responded Heather automatically.

"Well you have been distracted these two days, is everything all right?"

"Yeah it's just that I have been tired lately, Glee has been pushing us really hard, with regionals and everything" Heather felt ashamed for using the best job in the world as an excuse, when it wasn't even true, there wasn't anything she liked doing best. Sometimes it was a lot of work and very long days with dancing, acting and singing, but she couldn't complain. It had been the best three years of her life and she had met the kindest and most hardworking people ever, she had met Naya.

"Well, good thing that you had this week to recover, am I right?" said Taylor.

"Yeah, I guess" responded the blonde.

"Too bad I have to leave today though" replied Taylor with a small pout in his face.

"But we will see each other again, won't we" asked Hemo.

"Of course there is nothing I would want the most!" replied Tay "How about you".

"Me too" replied Heather doubtfully, she was getting a really weird vibe from him and she did not know why.

Heather pulled over the car in the parking lot at LAX, and she was ready to go out of the car when Taylor stopped her. "Heather? Can you wait for a minute, I have something to ask you" he said seriously. Heather got worried as he never called her by her full name.

"Are you hiding something from me?" he said going straight to the point.

"What? What are you talking about?" asked Heather confused.

"You have been really weird lately, very distant and cold towards me, I don't know what's wrong. I've tried being the best boyfriend but I guess I'm doing something wrong. I know it's hard for us to be apart and that long distance sucks but we make it work, or at least we did."

"Umm I don't understand where are going with this, what are you implicating?" Heather retorted, now she was getting a bit mad with what Taylor was saying, why was he bringing this up?

"Ok, I'm just gonna say it…are you cheating on me?" said Taylor scared.

"What?! Where are you getting this?" replied Heather astonished to his true implication.

"Just answer the question Heather." Hemo had never seen him like this, so serious and cold that it scared her a bit. Panic entered her body when she didn't know what to answer, the truth was that she did cheat on him and she felt extremely ashamed of it, not because of Naya but because she had cheated.

"Why are you doing this Taylor?" replied Heather wanting to prolong giving her answer.

"Stop giving me questions and answer mine" reiterated Taylor looking at the floor with a dead serious look on his face.

"When you answer mine" Heather knew that what she was doing was stupid but she didn't know what else to do, she was panicking.

"You're not denying it, oh my god, Heather how could you do this to us!" said Taylor raising his voice.

"Stop this Taylor" she replied.

"No! You stop this! Just tell me the truth Heather! Did you cheat on me?" said Taylor angrily.

Hemo knew that she didn't have a choice anymore as tears started to roll down her cheeks. "Yes" she replied quietly.

"I can't believe this. Heather how could you do this to me! I can't believe you. After all we've been through, I thought that I would mean more to you" he replied coldly and hurt.

"Taylor stop saying that, you mean the world to me" as tears streamed down from her blue eyes.

"No I don't think I do anymore, then why would you cheat on me?!"

"Let me explain! I didn't feel good about it, I felt awful and it was only one time!" Hemo pleaded.

"Did it mean something to you?" Taylor asked.

"What? What do you mean" said Heather confused.

"When you cheated on me, did it mean something to you" replied Tay looking at her for the first time in a while.

Heather gasped because she didn't know what to answer. She stared out the window in the car thinking of the night she slept with Naya. It was magical. And just being with her, just hanging felt right. Now Heather knew that they belonged together and that she wasn't proud of cheating on Taylor but she didn't take it back, because that was what made her realize that the one she needed to be with was Naya.

"Look Taylor, I want to tell you all the truth and I want you to listen to me, because I owe you at least that." Taylor remained silent so she kept on going.

"I know that what I did was terrible and that I had no right to do that and that if you hate me now, I deserve it. But we weren't ok, we hadn't been ok for a long time, and we both know that. And I am not excusing my actions, because they were wrong, but this didn't work anymore. I know that both of us tried hard to make it work, you more than I, when you did your best to fly from Louisiana to LA whenever you could, and that I didn't deliver quite as well. We are each living our dream, me here with Glee and all and you getting your mayor. Sometimes I think I'm still that 17 year old that fell deeply in love with you, but we are not in high school anymore. We've changed, a lot, maybe for better or for worse, I don't know, but we have been far for 7 years, since I moved here. Although we seemed to be ok when I was just dancing from show to show and you were in college. But now each has their own lives, and sadly they are not together."

"But we can make it work, you are my life, you had been since I met you and I don't want this to end. But I look at you right now and I see a totally different girl, I don't see that 19 year old who told me that she was moving to LA to live her dream and make her daddy proud. You have grown up Heather and it kills me that I will not be a part of it anymore, but it kills me even more what you did to me" the calm and sweet speech that made more tears roll down Heather's cheeks was suddenly turning to anger again.

"You think it wasn't hard for me that you were far away living this glamorous life here with all these actors and famous people, and that I was just a college student with a baseball scholarship, because it was. I lived in constant fear that you would find someone better than me, someone who was similar to you. But still every Tuesday that Glee is on I stopped whatever I was doing and I would watch the show, because it made feel close to you, even though you were miles away."

He stopped and he turned to look at Heather who was nervously playing with her hands, a habit she did when she was sad or nervous, and kept crying silently.

"And I was stupid enough to get jealous when Naya kissed you although it was part of your work" he chuckled.

Heather tensed when she heard that, and cleared her throat nervously. Heather's little nervous movement didn't go unnoticed by Taylor, he knew her too well.

"Oh my god it was her" said Taylor realizing who his girlfriend had cheated on him with.

"What?" asked Heather trying to avoid the inevitable.

"You cheated on me with Naya. I can't believe it." Heather stayed silent. "It's all clear to me now! How could I be so stupid! The day we went to the set and both of you with your ridiculous jealousy and John and I were stupid enough to buy it. How long has this been going on!?"

"Why is that important" replied Hemo defensively.

"Please don't tell me that since you met her" asked Taylor clearly hurt.

"Nooo! Naya had been just my best friend until recently" replied Heather still crying.

"How could the two of you be so mean"

"What are you talking about?" asked Heather frustrated by the situation.

"The two of you had boyfriends and you still saw each other, behind our backs. John and I were so clueless".

"It's not like we felt good about it, you know how miserable I've been this week, since that night, I couldn't even look at myself from the shame I felt that I had cheated on you. I never meant for it to happen but we had to kiss for the scene and I felt lonely because you were far away, and one thing led to another. I tried so hard to not want to feel something, to stop what I was doing because I love you with all my life. It's just exhausting to feel this way, to always want to cry because you don't know what to do anymore, but look this doesn't work anymore!" Gestured Heather.

"Naya and I talked about it many times and we said that we would stop because we didn't want to hurt you or John but we just couldn't. And Naya broke up with John after it because she realized that she was in love with me".

Taylor shook his head in disbelief, "Oh, she's in love with you now, how convenient".

"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Heather.

"Why now Heather, when I am so close of finishing my mayor, I was going to move here with you and hopefully in a few years start a family. You always told me that you would even give up acting to marry me. Not that I would have ever made you do that, because I know that you love what you do. Are all those feelings gone, do you not love me anymore?"

"Of course I love you, and it's killing me see you so hurt right now, but I am not that girl from Arizona that just wanted to marry you anymore. We've changed, our relationship changed" replied Heather frustrated.

"Are you willing to leave all this to go off with Naya? Do you really love her?" asked Taylor about to cry.

Heather took a deep breath and said "Yes, I do, I love her."

A tear rolled down Taylor's face as he said "Do you have any idea, how this decision is going to affect your life, your future? Think about your family, your mom, how does she think she is going to react when she finds out that you're a lesbian now?"

"I don't know if I am; stop getting down on me for that! It would only be a problem if I let it be, and yeah probably my mom wouldn't be too happy about it, but after my dad died, she and I have always been close and she will accept me for who I am, especially if it makes me happy" replied Heather feeling a bit mad.

"Naya makes you happy?"

"Yes she does, she loves me and I love her, and I know it's not ideal but it feels right. What you and I had was beautiful Tay, and you made this 8 years, incredible. But you and I are not right anymore, you know it but you're too scared to see it, I was the same but you have to look past the pain and see the future, a future in which you will be happy without me".

"Come on Heather, this is just a phase, I am willing to see past this, we can be a family, I can make you happy again" Taylor said desperately.

"No, Taylor, no, this can't be anymore. I love you but you have to let me go, and as much as I would like to have a family with you, my heart isn't here anymore. And I don't know what the future awaits for me and Naya, but what I do know is that you will go and be a great man and you will make some girl the luckiest, who will appreciate how wonderful you are, the way I didn't know how to do."

She looked at Taylor's blue eyes and saw a trace of sadness. "I'm so sorry Tay, I wish I didn't feel this way, I wish I could make you happy, just as you have with me. It kills me to see you like this, I'm so so sorry" Heather repeated.

Taylor leaned in and kissed her, Heather gave in as it was going to be the last and for a moment she had a weird feeling in her gut, a feeling of him leaving her, of desperate loneliness.

"I love you Heather" said Taylor with tears in his eyes.

"I never imagined this moment, I thought that you and I were bound to end together, guess I was wrong huh?" he said with a sad chuckle.

He leaned in and kissed Heather's forehead; grabbed his bag and said. "I wish you a life of happiness Heather" and with that he walked out of the car. When he was about to enter the airport Heather thought she caught a glimpse of a tear that fell down his cheek. Heather wouldn't see him again for a long time.

Hemo broke down and started crying with her hands in her face. Taylor was gone and would never be back in her life because of her and her actions. He had been her life for so long and just like that he was gone and she couldn't help but feel sad. Whenever Heather felt sad she tried to cheer up somehow. She thought of who always cheered her up and she realized it was Naya. Her best friend was the only person, who made her feel better no matter what, and she was in love with her, and Naya was in love with Heather.

It suddenly hit Heather at that moment; that both of them were single and that that talk with Taylor left her hurt, for sure but it made her realize that she was madly in love with Naya and they could finally be together. She wiped the last tear for Taylor and turned the keys on her car driving with one destination: Naya's house.